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Download speed capped on Nighthawk R7000?
My ISP speed is 1000 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up
My modem is in Bridge-mode
My router is the Nighthawk R7000
QoS on the R7000 is disabled
I have 2 PC's connected via a cable
When I connect PC1 directly to my modem the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC1 to my R7000 the download speed is 680 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC2 to my R7000 the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
So what is happening here?
I can not find a setting on my R7000 that is able to cap speeds on specific devices. But it seems to be capping the speed in my PC1 and not on PC2.
In the advanced setting on the R7000 I can see the connected devices but I can not see their down and up speeds. The help function says I should be able to see them.
Can somebody help?
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Reinder wrote:My ISP speed is 1000 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up
My modem is in Bridge-mode
My router is the Nighthawk R7000
QoS on the R7000 is disabled
I have 2 PC's connected via a cable
When I connect PC1 directly to my modem the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC1 to my R7000 the download speed is 680 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC2 to my R7000 the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
So what is happening here?
I can not find a setting on my R7000 that is able to cap speeds on specific devices. But it seems to be capping the speed in my PC1 and not on PC2.
In the advanced setting on the R7000 I can see the connected devices but I can not see their down and up speeds. The help function says I should be able to see them.
Can somebody help?
You need to be looking at the settings/drivers on PC1. If you are running Windows 10/11, look at the network profile. Should be set to private for a home network. Are the Ethernet port drivers up to date?
Yes, Windows 11 is set to home network and yes the ethernet drivers are up to date.
The fact that PC1 is able to achieve the download speeds of 1000 Mbps when directly connected to the modem shows that the problem can not be in PC1 solely, but has to be some combination of factors in the settings between PC1 and the R7000.
Reinder wrote:
When I connect PC1 directly to my modem the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC1 to my R7000 the download speed is 680 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC2 to my R7000 the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
As Kitsap says, start with PC1. The R7000 doesn't care what you connect to it.
A bit more detail might help. Are both PCs on the same version of Windows? Do they have the same ethernet hardware?
In the advanced setting on the R7000 I can see the connected devices but I can not see their down and up speeds. The help function says I should be able to see them.- Advanced Home
- Internet Port
- Show Statistics
Or http://routerlogin.com/RST_statistics.htm
Disclaimer: Just another user with time on their hands.
michaelkenward schreef:
Reinder wrote:When I connect PC1 directly to my modem the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC1 to my R7000 the download speed is 680 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
When I connect PC2 to my R7000 the download speed is 1000 Mbps and up is 100 Mbps.
As Kitsap says, start with PC1. The R7000 doesn't care what you connect to it.
A bit more detail might help. Are both PCs on the same version of Windows? Do they have the same ethernet hardware?
In the advanced setting on the R7000 I can see the connected devices but I can not see their down and up speeds. The help function says I should be able to see them.- Advanced Home
- Internet Port
- Show Statistics
Or http://routerlogin.com/RST_statistics.htm
Disclaimer: Just another user with time on their hands.
PC2 is much older than PC1 and cannot even run Windows 11. They both are Dell PC's. So one would expect PC2 to perform worse than PC1. It also shows that the problem cannot be the router itself because PC2 reaches speeds much faster than PC1 while connected to the R7000.
The statistics page I had found, but it only shows the speeds of the 4 LAN ports:
Poort Status TxPkts RxPkts Botsingen Tx B/s Rx B/s Actieve tijd WAN 1000M/Volledig 41689697 104362462 0 783 7289 4 Dagen 02:58:33 LAN1 1000M/Volledig 2416739 2581577 0 5115 726 00:18:18 LAN2 1000M/Volledig 4 Dagen 17:54:11 LAN3 1000M/Volledig 4 Dagen 17:54:30 LAN4 100M/Volledig 2 Dagen 18:59:56 2.4G WLAN b/g/n 600M 1519681 537978 0 1275 351 4 Dagen 18:34:15 5G WLAN a/n 1300M So PC1 is on LAN1 and I tried PC2 on LAN1 as well and they gave the different results. LAN 4 is my raspberry Pi which is slow.
I was looking for the statistics on connected devices:
Toegestaan Bekabeld Dell
Tron5192.168.1.9 The help function says that is should also show internet download speed per device and internet upload speed per device (when you click help down below on the page). But it does not.
Reinder wrote:
PC2 is much older than PC1 and cannot even run Windows 11. They both are Dell PC's. So one would expect PC2 to perform worse than PC1. It also shows that the problem cannot be the router itself because PC2 reaches speeds much faster than PC1 while connected to the R7000.Your conclusions are faulty for several reasons. Two different PC's with designs for different operating systems. The motherboards are different, the chipsets are different, and possibly the Ethernet port chipsets are from a different vendor with different memory buffers and different drivers. The security features of a new operating system and a new computer may or may not come with a performance cost when compared to an older machine.
You are borderline nit picking. The throughput differences between 1000 and 680 would be difficult to perceive during normal operation and show up only during a test evolution.
If one PC is working to spec while the other isn't and both connected behind the R7000, then the PC1 is the point where you'll need to investigate where the problem is. Nothing at the router would be causing this. You'll need to contact the Mfr of this PC for there help and support information and see if it can be resolved.
Good Luck.
